Jennifer Garrison, PhD

Co-Founder & Director, Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity & Equality

Jennifer Garrison, PhD, is Co-Founder and Director of the Global Consortium for Reproductive
Longevity and Equality (GCRLE) and an Assistant Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on
Aging. She also holds appointments in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Leonard Davis School of
Gerontology at the University of Southern California (USC). She is a passionate advocate for
women’s health and is pioneering a new movement to advance science focused on female
reproductive aging. Her lab studies the role of inter-tissue communication in systemic aging,
and how changes in the complex interactions between the ovary and brain during middle-age
lead to the onset of reproductive decline in females.

She has played an active role in the aging field, as a member of the Board of Directors for the
American Aging Association (AGE), a reviewer for the American Federation of Aging Research
(AFAR), and as Associate Director of the Buck-USC Biology of Aging PhD program. Dr. Garrison
was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Neuroscience Research Fellow and an Allen Institute
for Brain Science Next Generation Leader and is the recipient of a Glenn Medical Foundation
Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging, and a Junior Faculty Award from the
American Federation of Aging Research.